Definition of "sporran" []

• A leather or fur pouch worn at the front of the kilt in the traditional dress of men of the Scottish Highlands. (noun)

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• "The sporran is a kind of belt purse, Shari explained."
• "That "sporran" was really a kind of movable curtain or screen; and beneath it, Bowman was quite sure, would be the mouth, handily placed at the entrance to the stomach."
• "Too bad it replaced the already existing "sporran", which describes exactly the same kind of thing."